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An answer to Mr. Dodwell and Dr. Sherlock, confuting an universal humane church-supremacy aristocratical…An answer to Mr. Dodwell and Dr. Sherlocke, confuting an universal humane church-supremacy aristocratical…
An answer to Mr. Dodwell and Dr. Sherlock, confuting an universal humane church-supremacy aristocratical and monarchical, as church-tyranny and popery : and defending Dr. Isaac Barrow's treatise against it by Richard Baxter ; preparatory to a fuller treatise against such an universal sovereignty as contrary to reason, Christianity, the Protestant profession, and the Church of England, though the corrupters usurp that title.An answer to Mr. Dodwell and Dr. Sherlocke, confuting an universal humane church-supremacy aristocratical and monarchical, as church-tyranny and popery : and defending Dr. Isaac Barrow's treatise against it by Richard Baxter ; preparatory to a fuller treatise against such an universal soveraignty as contrary to reason, Christianity, the Protestant profession, and the Church of England, though the corrupters usurp that title.
London: printed for Thomas Parkhurst, 1682
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7. If this were otherwise, I call and call again (but in vain) to Mr. Dodwell, and all his party, to tell me, how the Bishops and Priests of the Church of England in the days of Henry the 8th, and Edward the 6th, and Queen Elizabeth came to have power to put down the Mass, to set up the ⟨image 4⟩Liturgy, to take down Images, and to reform as they did, when it was certainly contrary to the intention of their Ordainers?
7. If this were otherwise, I call and call again (but in vain) to Mr. Dodwell, and all his party, to tell me, how the Bishops and Priests of the Church of England in the days of Henry the 8th, and Edward the 6th, and Queen Elizabeth came to have power to put down the Mass, to set up the ⟨image 4⟩Liturgie, to take down Images, and to reform as they did, when it was certainly contrary to the intention of their Ordainers?
8. And setting this point together with the other, (that Ordination of Presbyters is null) I ask them, (and ask again, but all in vain;) 1. Do not Bishops generate their Species, and make Bishops their equals? 2. Who then can give his Office to the Archbishop, if he have no Superior in England, unless his Inferiors give it, or you fly to a Foreign Jurisdiction? 3. Whose Intention is it that giveth power to the Pope, if he be greatest? Or to the General Council, if it be greatest? If there be none above them, either God or Inferiors give them their power? 4. And what if these Inferiors that make Popes, Primates, or Councils, by Intention would take down half their power? Is it then done? What self-contradiction and confusion would some men rather run into, than grant Christ to be Christ? that is, the only Universal Head and Legislator to the Church on Earth.
8. And setting this point together with the other, (that Ordination of Presbyters is null) I ask them, (and ask again, but all in vain;) 1. Do not Bishops generate their Species, and make Bishops their equals? 2. Who then can give his Office to the Archhishop, if he have no Superior in England, unless his Inferiors give it, or you fly to a Forreign Iurisdiction? 3. Whose Intention is it that giveth power to the Pope, if he be greatest? Or to the General Council, if it be greatest? If there be none above them, either God or Inferiours give them their power? 4. And what if these Inferiours that make Popes, Primates, or Councils, by Intention would take down half their power? Is it then done? What self-contradiction and confusion would some men rather run into, than grant Christ to be Christ? that is, the only Vniversal Head and Legislator to the Church on Earth.